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Audio commentary from 2003 by Stephen Prince, author of The Warriorâ€™s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa

A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies (2000), a ninetyÂ­-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Productions and featuring interviews with the director

Documentary on Ikiru from 2003, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, and featuring interviews with Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and others

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PLUS: An essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer and a reprint from critic Donald Richieâ€™s 1965 book The Films of Akira Kurosawa

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One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa,Â IkiruÂ shows the director at his most compassionateâ€”affirming life through an exploraÂ­tion of death. Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived twoÂ­part structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision,Â IkiruÂ is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive.

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